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Michael Hawley, co-first-prize winner of the 2002 International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, will be giving a recital this Friday, May 25 at 6:00 p.m. C.S.T. The recital will be held in the Van Cliburn Recital Hall in Fort Worth, Texas and will be streamed over the Internet so that millions of viewers worldwide can enjoy watching this live performance!

Click the online registration links on this page to register to watch this live webcast concert for free!

Michael Hawley’s program for the concert is as follows:

Appetizer
Rameau-Godowsky: Sarabande in E major
Lully-Godowsky: Sarabande in E minor
Bach-Hawley: Fugue in G major “Gigue”
Bach-Hawley: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor

Entree
Chopin:
Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45
Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60
Etude in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5
Godowsky: Study No. 34 (based on Chopin’s Etude, Op. 25, No. 5)
New Etude in A-flat major, No. 3
Godowsky: Study No. 45 (based on Chopin’s New Etude No. 2)

Dessert
Moszkowski-Volodos-Hawley: Etincelles, Op. 36, No. 6
Saint-Saëns/Godowsky: The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
Dohnanyi: Capriccio in F minor, Op. 28, No. 6
Berlin-Tatum: Blue Skies

I received an e-mail from another teacher asking if I knew of a long keyboard graphic. I developed one a while back for use in my studio and thought I’d post it here. You can download a pdf file that contains 4 keyboard graphics similar to the one pictured below. (The file should be printed on 8.5 x 14 ” paper.) Of the three others included in the file, one is black and white with the sharp/flat names written on the black keys. One is all white and one is white with the sharp/flat names written on the black key spaces.

Here’s another similar file and picture, but the keyboards are a little shorter and can be printed on 8.5 x 11″ paper.

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